---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4815"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4815 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-12-08"
last_action: "2026-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2f85601-3b8f-4a59-b8f4-2c8334f837f4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4815"
source_hash: "91fecde233cadfccec9ddaf4c0f84249a7bddf1240bc6e9a507b97d626cc84bf"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 4815 (194th) — An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4815.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Cindy F. Friedman — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-12-08** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2025-12-08** New draft of H4473
- **2025-12-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-12-24** Rules suspended
- **2025-12-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-15** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-02-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-02-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-02-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 28 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2f85601-3b8f-4a59-b8f4-2c8334f837f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).